The Scene From Above Podcast

S11E2: Disruption

We discuss issues around disruption in the EO/geo business system. In the news we mention Landsat-9, GDAL and machine learning. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
Landsat 9 is launched
A nice EO based newsletter from Priya Patel
Awesome spectral indices
Being directly responsible for your career
Machine learning resources
UK Space Conf and FOSS4G are this week
GDAL changes - be aware
KTN Pavilion for COP26
Aravind's tweet 

S11E1: Biomass

We talk to Ed from the University of Edinburgh. In the news we mention stactools, SPACs and IceCube (not that one!). Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
New updates to stactools including support around Sentinel 1 GRD
Reduce GeoTIFF Disk Space Usage with Python 
IceCube released by Iceye
Investor presentations from Planet and Blacksky
#SLICED and its impact
Ed Mitchard
GEDI
GEDI and Python
NISAR
SENSE
Space Intelligence

S10E6: Digital Twins

We talk about EO and digital twins. In the news we mention Remote Pixel, Landsat 9 and STAC. Only those. Not other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
Sensat and Khalid
STAC RfP
Remote Pixel is done
Landsat 9 has a snazzy new page
Creating a digital twin of the Earth
The Earth archive
Microsoft Planetary Computer
Destination Earth
Smart City Digital Twins
Digital Twin Fan Club podcast

S10E5: Recruitment Issues

We discuss issues about recruitment in the EO and geospatial sectors. In the news we mention RSGISlib,  urban planning and Fregata Space. Only those. Not other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
Sensat and Khalid
RSGISlib has a new release coming
Fregata Space announcement
Urban planning in Vienna
 

S10E4: DEA Coastlines

We talk to Robbi from Geoscience Australia. In the news we mention Earth Blox and MOOCs, Iceye and 10m landcover! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
Observing Earth from Space MOOC
Sentinel-6 data
Sponsored SAR data for research
ObSERVE 2 aerial surveys
10m Landcover data
Digital Earth Australia Coastlines
Open Data Cube
Digital Earth Australia notebooks and tools repository
Robbi's Twitter

S10E3: TileDB

We talk to Stavros and Norman from TileDB. In the news we mention GEE again and R! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
awesome-gee-community-datasets code & datasets
SAR Watcher! and awesome-earth-engine-apps 
Introducing G.AI.A - the promises and pitfalls in using AI in conservation
Superpixels in R from Jakub Nowosad 
Alastair's new job as Sparkgeo lead in the UK 
TileDB
TileDB and geospatial
Norman's presentation to Radiant Earth

S10E2: Tyler Talks GEE

We talk to Tyler Erickson from Google about Google Earth Engine. In the news we mention launches, the EO clinic and Digital Earth Africa! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
The ethics of using geospatial data 
Interesting use cases from the EO Clinic:
Satellite Vu on its way to a thermal constellation
Alba Orbital funding round 
Albedo funding round
Continuing the trend of high quality tutorials in 2021 
Digital Earth Africa  portal and training 
Best Available Pixel on Github and GEE
Earth Outreach digital event hub
Geo for Good Summit 2020
Publishing an Earth Engine App to Accompany your Research Paper
Earth Engine Community pages 
Training Resources 

S10E1: SAR ML with Shay

We talk to Shay Strong from Iceye about SAR, machine learning and more. In the news we mention the MEGA NEWS and hackathons! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
The Mega News
Microsoft Planetary computer
Google Earth timelapse
Planet Carbonmapper
GDAL financial support
RSGISlib on Twitter
awesome-gee-community-datasets catalog 
Is EO starting to go mainstream? 
Geo-Podcasts list
Noel Gorelick Medium posts
ICESAT2 Hackweek
Going nuts about Geopandas
SpaceNet 6
Iceye
Iceye flood monitoring: 
EO College Echoes in Space - Intro to Radar Remote Sensing: 
GitHub SAR tools: 
Shay on Twitter
Shay on Medium 

S9E6: Vincent Sarago

We talk to Vincent Sarago about COGs and Remote Pixel and more. In the news we mention the Ever Given, LiveEO and tutorials! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
Ever Given is all over the internet  
"The Space Speedometer"
LiveEO closed their Series A 
The pace of excellent tutorials is incredible:
ShadedRelief
Earth Data Science
GIS Open Courseware
NASA
Mapbox
Remote Pixel
Development Seed
Cloud Optimised GeoTiff
titiler
aiocogeo
deck.gl-raster

S9E5: GEO

We chat to Phoebe and Angelica about AfriGEO and AmeriGEO. In the news we mention our Tweets, STAC and SPAC! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
STAC 1.0.0 RC1 released
A really great discussion on Twitter
What is SPAC?
Updates: geopandas and gdal
FAAAARRRRMS FROM SPAAAAACCCCE
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
AfriGEO
AmeriGEO
GeoGLOWS
Inter-American Academy of Geosciences & Applications
RCMRD